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Mortuary vs Portuary - What's the difference?

mortuary | portuary |

As nouns the difference between mortuary and portuary

is that mortuary is a place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation while portuary is (obsolete) a portable breviary; a porteous.

As an adjective mortuary

is of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.

mortuary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal

    • Noun

    (mortuaries)
  • a place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation
  • a morgue
  • (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.

    • Synonyms

    * (ecclesiastical heriot)

    portuary

    English

    Noun

    (portuaries)
  • (obsolete) A portable breviary; a porteous
  • *1823 John Nichols - The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
  • *:The Queen's private devotions . . . which she performed after the custom of her Religion out of her own portuary , with her beads and crucifix, sometimes in the Latin, and sometimes in the English tongue.